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Voice Panel for Home Assistant on Windows Pc

Developed By: ThanksMister LLC

License: Free

Rating: 4,8/5 - 4 votes

Last Updated: December 27, 2023

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version	0.1.4
Size	97.8 MB
Release Date	December 10, 22
Category	House & Home Apps
App Permissions: Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming. [see more (11)]
What's New: This release addresses a crash when users leave the MQTT port value empty and also fixes and issue saving the MQTT username and password. [see more]
Description from Developer: Voice Panel is a open source Voice Assistant for Home Assistant powered by the Snips Voice Platform. Snips provides a private, powerful, and customizable voice assistant technology... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download Voice Panel for Home Assistant and install on Windows PC. Voice Panel for Home Assistant is free House & Home app, developed by ThanksMister LLC. Latest version of Voice Panel for Home Assistant is 0.1.4, was released on 2022-12-10 (updated on 2023-12-27). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 1,000. Overall rating of Voice Panel for Home Assistant is 4,8. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 4 users, 3 users had rated it 5*, 1 users had rated it 1*.

How to install Voice Panel for Home Assistant on Windows?

Instruction on how to install Voice Panel for Home Assistant on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Voice Panel for Home Assistant on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Install using BlueStacks
Install using NoxPlayer

Step By Step Guide To Install Voice Panel for Home Assistant using BlueStacks

Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
Once installed, click "Voice Panel for Home Assistant" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install Voice Panel for Home Assistant on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Voice Panel for Home Assistant" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Download older versions

Other versions available: 0.1.4.

Download Voice Panel for Home Assistant 0.1.4 on Windows PC – 97.8 MB

Voice Panel is a open source Voice Assistant for Home Assistant powered by the Snips Voice Platform. Snips provides a private, powerful, and customizable voice assistant technology that processes all language input on the device, nothing is ever sent to the cloud.

Voice Panel uses Snips to act as a voice interface for Home Assistant. At this time, you can control your alarm system, lights, windows, blinds, switches, check status, get the date/time, and retrieve the weather information. You initiate a conversation with Voice Panel by using speaking wake-word, “Hey, Snips”. Alternatively, you can use face detection to initiate a conversation simply by looking at the device.

Currently the application has a few limitations. The Snips Android SDK does not work as a satellite, all messages must be forwarded to Home Assistant using MQTT and speech is processed on the Android device using TTS. The Snips Android SDK does not support custom wake-words at this time. To initiate a conversation, you must say “Hey, Snips” or you can try the face detection wake-word feature which starts listening when the camera recognizes a face.

* Face activated wake-word (no need to say "Hey, Snips").
* Control Home Assistant components using voice commands ("Turn on the kitchen lights").
* Stream video, detect motion, detect faces, and read QR Codes.
* Support for MQTT Alarm Panel Control to control your alarm system.
* MQTT commands to remotely control the application (speak text, play audio, send notifications, alerts, etc.).
* Device sensor data reporting over MQTT (temperature, light, pressure, battery, etc.).
* MQTT Day/Night mode based on the sun value reported from Home Assistant.
* MQTT weather data to display weather reported from Home Assistant.

For the complete setup instructions and additional information, please visit the Project Home Page.

This is an early release, please report any issues using the project issues tracker located at https://github.com/thanksmister/voice-panel-android/issues.

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This release addresses a crash when users leave the MQTT port value empty and also fixes and issue saving the MQTT username and password.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to record audio.